SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Mataura Ensign, 24 July 1914, Page 2

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

RIFLE-SHOOTING. j THE KEMPS PRIZE. BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COI'YEIGHT. PBB UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. LONIDOLV. July 2-2. For Vhe King's j.-ikc entries were received. The wind was uratendy and ii.ii> JigOt uncertain ' a>fc illto • first ran;.:,?, but nip-roved for the GOO yards' range. THE NEW REuULATIOXS. July 22. At Iho Rifle Association's meeting Colonel Mcirrc.lt declared? th-:».c 'the. Anytralians- would rc-lv.se to ai-copt the War Office , proposals' because' tillcy mean t a, d-.x-adetrceof rifle club whereon rested 1 the' 'Ar.itT-nliasis' second .ffcio of defence. No Australian Government would accent tf;;> War Of'iecul'tima'tum. at the h..iyonc.';'s point! Colonel Iters .'Canadian! commandap:) said that if the War Office persisted! no C'-iiiadiian team 'would vki; Bi'.sley. . Lord Cheyk'smoro agreed- -to c-oiivev the colonials' views to ti'.ie War Office. GA\JSP CH )X VERS ATI OX. LOXIDOX;, J illy 2,2. The colonials' stand a-gii'iivrit the new regulations ir> the 'gciroral subject o.f camp conversation. TRIBUTE TO MILITARY TRAINING HI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COFTKIGHT. PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION LONDON, July 22. The 'Pall Ma 1 ! Gazette' e;,mnient. : ug on the Kola-pore C.up, favs that the result appears to he the first fr»ii.» c.i the adoption of "universal mil'ilj; : ---■. in Australia.

FOOTBALL THE X': ■, ;" f T-'ii- K-lj; . '• s - "■ ' »-• 11 : |1" 11 EMPI ' .. .<~!U ST. 4: he (V'.\ ■ ".ia v K. !''. \\ a: ■ u Ihxii Air V. (*••»*. ' -,!. ,v»s i->: 1 u 'it tha • !i.i t ' ■B. C. Han- ' cck, eiiin i.vcc, i:.;iu a 1 ie.,ning :ii.■ Matarae, f ~ip. con :r:>r c !■" i'ic i vi'.'or- i .-ie i)ci'A •! ° .111 lii-rnir-: I Pd. liou lf !- .siiij in- .ij.j.parcct t'--> H'lidant uifi |i!i :i i..'d guilty. He said i'ic i-r«nli!c <;!•' not- arisei I'jrough any i;|i|ie- iii.n ..i the- defence system, hut •>!•• ''uough neglect on tiie part of lie uefeiidant, who dud 1 not give- attention) to tihe matter at the time. In, 1 irntirm ' olien ? Mr .Br.-.vler ■ " ~j tih.e -court thwt the firm ... -..jr.;- R. and. F. Watli:;, Ltd., dealt largely in shsep.vkhi;-. .from the / freezing v.v-o'fks. and at times. \';ad a large 'lumber on hand. At- the tiuF 1 .;»{ Yn . Matarac Camp the linn's work in thV.i re-sp-sct was -at its being of a tei-h-rical nature, requiiredexperienced \vo>- : m»n. It -was t rue that Hancock vj; i, ; spoken to M.r Wal--lis some weeks before the oauVp, and Mr Wallis replied thai, it was am awkward time for l.ini to be aivay -as the firm ivrs shert-'ha'ndedi already, but asked l Hancock to iner.iion the matter liter -on. Hancock cl'id' cn two dt;ys before'the camp, -and in the meantime the matter had e«ea.pedv-Mr Willis' m,emery. He then' t-hougM iih.at Hancock could do lite ,-ame as l -several. l of the men employed had deuc the -:rc- ■ viousi year and attend ;ibe camp, at-TaiaT-oa- Heiwlr; Hamcock' left the fiiriil's 1 employ shoi'tly at-ler. Mr Wal'-in adni-itlcd his nvglei-t in mot gi.ttiing exemption as lie iia'di dime the previous year. ■ Tllie- magistrate said the words used by Hancock at the former iliearing were admitted- by the defendant. The defendant was not ignorant of the law, and in- all such caso:? I'.i'.wuv most necessarily be iiK'onvcniien-ce. He (the magistrate) had- power to grant oxe;ripti>oms iwhen- lie considered undue hardships were.-likely to arise, but in. this <a.se 110 application' .had been. n;:ade. Tiiie law provided for -ai penalty -of £2O being imposed in -siic'li eases as this, hut as it \va>s -the .first case ol' the kind' ii.ni the district he would not inflict the maximum penalty hut would impose, a, line ■similar 'to what he would have ,inflicted Oiti -H aaicockiif this case had' n'r.t arisen-. The .lino would' -he £-5 and c>ostis 7s.